I mentioned in an earlier post that I was thinking about different ways to review my opening play. Roughly speaking I want to try something like this after each game:
- Indentify the first unfamiliar position. (Out of book, in other words)
- Evaluate the results of the opening—as the game transitions into the middle game, how do both players stand? Am I happy with the results from the opening phase?
- Play over the opening moves and look for improvements. In particular, look for candidate moves that I didn’t really consider during the game. (This is because I tend to overlook good candidate moves.)
- Use ChessBase to run opening reports, find similar games, etc., to help confirm what I’d like to play next time, and to get ideas about piece development and middle game plans.
- Save the result into a ChessBase database devoted to that particular opening.
Here’s my attempt at this kind of review on my World Open round 1 loss:
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Not a bad game at all Steve. Keep up the good work. Take heed of time. Look at every legal move as a rule, not a choice. I’m sure you’ll go on to greener pastures as the years of understanding pile on. See you in the funny papers! M.F.
Was wondering how you generate these nice diagrams with the notation that you can click on, with comments? Very nice.
MF—Thanks for the encouragement.
Rich—I use palview. It took some time and experimentation to figure it all out, though.
I concur: an excellent interface. It doesn’t take five years to load like Chessviewer! I will have to steal your idea.
Note I haven’t looked at the game yet
Eek. I admire that you got that working. It looks like there’s a bit of a learning curve to climb to use it.